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Description: | Amsterdam in the seventeenth century witnessed the rise of a commercial art market on an unprecedented scale. Meindert Hobbema's forte within this crowded and competitive artistic environment was the wooded landscape, typically focused on a sunlit clearing and often revealing a cottage, a ruin, or, in this case, a stream with a group of anglers. In this respect, Hobbema's art, perhaps more than that of any of his contemporaries, prefigures the English tradition of landscape painting that culminated, in the early nineteenth century, with the work of John Constable. The present painting can be dated tentatively to the 1660s, the artist's most productive decade. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hobbema, Meindert (Dutch painter, 1638-1709) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8536... | Go to resource |
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